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Battle of the Hydaspes – Alexander The Great’s Expansion to the East

Alexander the Great’s expansive politics led him to the eastern bank of the river Hydaspes. This river was in Pauravas, an ancient kingdom in the…

Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, The WW2 Japanese Plan to Wage Biological Warfare on the USA

World War II introduced the international community to a host of new horrors: Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps dedicated to death, Japan’s air-led destruction that turned…

Starving Their Own Men: Britain’s Epic Supply Failure in the Crimea

Andrew Knighton

The very least a soldier expects when sent on a campaign is to be fed, clothed and given the necessary equipment to carry out their…

The Death of Erwin Rommel: The Last Hours Of The Desert Fox

Ovidiu Popa

Erwin Rommel was, for a time, Hitler’s favorite general. After his success in 1940, as the commander of a Panzer division, Rommel was appointed to…

Harold Ackroyd – A Selfless WWI Medic with More than 20 Separate VC Recommendations

Life in war is never easy. Watching your fellow soldiers and friends fighting for their lives and suffering serious wounds – physically and mentally – can be…

10 Things You Never Knew About Japanese Admiral Yamamoto – The Architect Of The Pearl Harbor Attack

Colin Fraser

Isoroku Yamamoto was the Japanese Imperial Navy Admiral and Commander-in-chief who masterminded the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941. He was hated by U.S.…

The Belgian Fortress That Stopped The German Invaders For 11 Days In May 1940 – Fort Aubin-Neufchateau

War History online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Fort d’Aubin-Neufchateau ASBL Fort Aubin-Neufchateau is just 10km from the massive fortress of Eben-Emael. While Eben-Emael…

Auschwitz Mug Hides Golden Secret

Curators of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum recently made a remarkable discovery. One of the enamel mugs in their collection contained a gold ring and a necklace,…

The Full Horror of the Nazis’ Treatment of Women is Expored in this Important Book

Warning: Some readers may find the content of this article distressing Dr. Beverley Chalmers’ latest book is Birth, Sex, and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule…

President Obama to Visit Hiroshima

President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima during a trip to Japan and Vietnam this month. He will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit…

The WW2 Spy Who Accepted the Surrender of an Entire German Army

Frederick Mayer was a man described by some as fearless. He was a German Jew whose family emigrated from their home on the Western edge…

Reindeer Battalion of WWII Braver than Soviets, Tougher than Tanks

The Petsamo-Kirkenes Offensive in 1944, which led to the expulsion of German forces from the northerly regions of Norway, would have been severely hampered had…